Marco Dinelli

Upon returning home from his Grand Embassy, Peter the Great enters into a prolonged war with Sweden to secure access to the Baltic Sea. His path to victory is paved with setbacks, treachery, and deceit. Only by overcoming these challenges will he become Emperor, find true love, and establish Russia as a great empire.

Film critic Rita, in an attempt to meet “the one,” embarks on a journey through the labyrinth of her own memories, emotions, and feelings.

Artist Alberto travels to a small Italian town to visit his ex-wife for a formal divorce in the local court. But suddenly an incredible phantasmagoria begins to happen. In a day, a bright flash of their other life reveals what they could not admit to each other for many years.

In 1768, in the midst of a severe smallpox epidemic that killed every tenth inhabitant of the country, Empress Catherine II decided to set a personal example to her subjects: together with her heir, Tsarevich Pavel, she was the first to be vaccinated against the terrible disease and declared vaccination mandatory for everyone — despite court intrigues, peasant riots and the impending war with Turkey, This decree must be implemented at all costs, otherwise the deadly virus will claim even more lives.